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“Between December 2017 and January 2018 food and non-alcoholic drinks’ index increased by 1.69 per cent mainly due to increases in prices of some foodstuffs which outweighed the falls in others,” the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said in a statement.

Food takes up the largest share (36 per cent) of the basket of goods that is used to calculate inflation, making it the main driver of the cost of living, followed by utilities such as rent, water, electricity, gas and fuels at 18 per cent.

Some food items that recorded price increases in January include sukuma wiki, beef, cabbages and irish potatoes.

KNBS said transport costs were on the climb, in response to rising fuel pump prices as did electricity bills.